True Grit
The New York Times bestselling that inspired two award-winning films
Published on 4. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4088-1400-0 (ISBN)
Description
The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothers
'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL
'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' WASHINGTON POST
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces.
Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney.
Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL
'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' WASHINGTON POST
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces.
Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney.
Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
Reviews / Votes
'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time. What book has given me greater pleasure in the last five years? Or in the last twenty? I do not know ... What a writer!' * Roald Dahl * 'Charles Portis is a writer who - if there's any justice - will come to be regarded as the author of classics of the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain' * Esquire * 'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' * Washington Post * 'One of those rare sweet delights ... one can recommend to inveterate fiction readers and to those who read only one or two novels a year' * San Francisco Chronicle *More details
Edition
Media tie-in
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Media tie-in
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
164 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-1400-0 (9781408814000)
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01/2011
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.